Countries with better economic performance such as Slovenia or Czech republic tend to have more developed civil society, lower corruption, more support for democracy and more trust.
Among people showing some trust in institutions, most place their confidence in the order-securing institutions or media. Only a small part indicates general trust in representative institutions. In spite of prevailing general distrust, people do support the democratic regime.
Although societies and their elites realize the importance of general trust, it is naturally complicated to create it overnight in turmoils of transition to market economy and liberal democracy. The transformation process did not bring general trust immediately. It rather created a base that has the best capacity to create government of the people, by the people and for the people, thus sustained by the support of the polity, step by step creating common expectations, creating trust.


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